Matt: Local Flexibility Aids Protein Multiple Structure Alignment

Matthew Menke; Bonnie Berger; Lenore Cowen

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0040010

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Matt: Local Flexibility Aids Protein Multiple Structure Alignment

Matthew Menke,

Affiliation Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Bonnie Berger ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bab@csail.mit.edu (BB); cowen@cs.tufts.edu (LC)

Affiliations Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Lenore Cowen

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bab@csail.mit.edu (BB); cowen@cs.tufts.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Matt: Local Flexibility Aids Protein Multiple Structure Alignment

Matthew Menke,
Bonnie Berger,
Lenore Cowen

Published: January 11, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0040010

About the Authors

Matthew Menke

Affiliation Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bonnie Berger

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bab@csail.mit.edu (BB); cowen@cs.tufts.edu (LC)

Affiliations Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lenore Cowen

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bab@csail.mit.edu (BB); cowen@cs.tufts.edu (LC)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MM, BB, and LC conceived and designed the experiments. MM performed the experiments. MM and LC analyzed the data. LC wrote the paper.

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